minimum attachment size?

[Martin Hepworth]

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Julian

Also tried it here as well - blocked a valid 'bounce' email from a 
mailing list

It was in Italian, so I'm just guessing the email was valid in the firt 
place, unless someone would like a copy off list to verify this...

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Marcin Ro¿ek wrote:
>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>
>>> My morning summary of bad emails, as reported by MailScanner, showed a
>>> pile of "attachment too small" rejections of local users.  I had set the
>>> value to zero.  While we discourage Outlook on our campus (we support
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Roger Jochem wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is some problem using the minimum attachment size parameter. I
>>>> changed
>>>> it to "1", and if in Outlook Express I forward the message as an
>>>> attachment
>>>> the message is blocked with attachmenttoosmall. The message I was
>>>> testing
>>>> had about 700 Kb.
>>
>>
>> I've just tested this on Outlook Express V6.00.2800.1165. E-mail
>> forwarded as
>> attachment wasn't blocked... Most of our users use Thunderbird although
>> there's
>> still some outlook-ers but none of them did report this problem...
>>
>> Maybe you could process such e-mail using MS in debug mode?
> 
> ouch... I did double check "Minimum Attachment Size" i MailScanner.conf 
> and it
> looks like it was turned off...(I forgot to rename MailScanner.conf.new to
> MailScanner.conf after upgrade) When i set it to "1" then indeed MS blocks
> e-mails from Outlook Express...
> Mea culpa. I'm sorry.
> 
> Marcin
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